David Pakman

I know immigration.

Mexicans have screwed you, many of them rapists.

I will fix it with a wall that they will pay for.

None of this crap happens.

But it was the sort of scaffolding that is much more Tucker style than someone with like a deep policy knowledge.

Now, at the same time, there's a big counterpoint here, which is, yeah, Tucker has suggested a lot that he doesn't want to run for office.

He's hinted that he doesn't want the job, that he doesn't want the lifestyle or the constraints, which I understand.

And then he has also argued he couldn't possibly win.

In modern politics, saying you don't want to run is kind of part of the script.

So I don't even know that we can listen to that when people say, no, no, no, I never could or never would.

Or then it becomes, listen, if I became convinced that I could do it, if I became convinced that I was the person for the moment or something like that, we have seen so many people say I'm not running right up until the moment when suddenly they are running.

Now, sometimes they genuinely aren't thinking about it and something changes their mind.

Sometimes it's about avoiding any scrutiny until the timing is appropriate to announce.

So for me, Tucker saying I'm not interested, it doesn't really mean anything to me.

It does make it a little less immediate.

And then the final question is, is Tucker more powerful where he is right now?

A lot of the large creators that I've talked to.

Conversations come up about running and usually the hesitation is, number one, a lot of creators don't want their finances analyzed in the way that they get analyzed when you run for office.

Now, you could do the Trump, which is just like, I'm just not going to show it to you.

I don't know that most people can get away with that.